Amerigo Provenzano (Provenzano DJ)

Rome, 1970 · DJ, record producer and radio host

The beginnings

Amerigo Provenzano was born in Rome in 1970. His passion for technology came before his passion for the job: as a child he bought his first computer with his father, a Commodore VIC-20. After graduating from the Hertz technical high school, he heard a radio announcement for a course run by the Lazio Region with an unusual name, Midifonico, combining electronics and music. He was one of about thirty students admitted, and at the end of the course he was sent on an internship at RDS.

RDS, 1990 – 2002

At RDS he became the station's all-rounder: studio direction, live shows, sound engineering, editing, commercials. He then headed post-production and commercial scheduling, and in the early '90s he pushed the switch from analogue to digital, with Pro Tools and DAT. Together with Paolo Bolognesi he looked after the station's dance programming. One of those shows, Top Ten Dance, won the Telegatto award from TV Sorrisi e Canzoni for best music chart in 1995.

In the same years he began mixing compilations. Between 1994 and 1997 he mixed Hit Mania Dance, Hit Parade Dance, Studio Dance and the RDS compilations: Hit Mania Dance 2 and RDS Dance Compilation went gold, and in 1995 Hit Mania Dance Estate went platinum. He also made his debut as a producer with Double Dare, the project he signed with Paolo Bolognesi: I Believe (1994) and We Belong (1996), in the early days of Italo dance.

m2o, 2002 – 2010

In February 2002 Fabrizio Tamburini, a former RDS colleague, called him to Gruppo Espresso to turn Italia Radio into a station for a young audience. He moved there with Paolo Bolognesi and Davide Fara, and the project started from scratch. They designed and built the studios themselves, and for months the station broadcast in test mode, without a name. At the end of October that year m2o arrived, "musica allo stato puro" (music in its purest form), Italy's first radio station dedicated to club music. The first compilation came out with the launch, in record shops, and became a phenomenon: it sold out in no time.

For seventeen years he was the station's artistic face: he created formats, set the musical direction, brought artists on air, hosted the afternoon slot and headlined the brand's events. He mixed all 40 m2o compilations, from 2002 to 2015, five of which went gold. From 2004, with m2o The Dance Night, later renamed m2all Shock, his video mixes also went on television, on All Music, and these shows became compilations too, in DualDisc format, audio on one side and video on the other: four releases between 2005 and 2007.

In the mid-2000s he created Italian Deejays with Sergio Marini, a show for foreign radio stations that was also broadcast in Brazil. It later became a recording project of the same name, with two singles: Eurofolk (2005) and The Story Goes On (2006). These were also the years in which he worked most as a remixer: over his career he has signed more than 80 remixes for other artists, most of them between 2005 and 2013, and most of them together with Promise Land. The most important date from 2009 and made his name outside Italy: Leave The World Behind by Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell and Laidback Luke feat. Deborah Cox, and Scared of Me by Fedde Le Grand feat. Mitch Crown, released on Ultra Records.

m2o, 2010 – 2019

On the radio, these were the years of his longest-running shows. In the m2o afternoon slot he hosted the Provenzano Dj Show, which started in 2008 and ran until 2016, with Manuela Doriani: new music, mixed, international guests, interviews. From 2016 to 2019 he hosted Music Zone: the first year with Manuela Doriani and Leandro Da Silva, the second with Renee' La Bulgara and Don Cash. The show brought a major innovation, live broadcasting on radio and Facebook at the same time, and it also had a television version, the Festival edition, on Sky from 2018. At weekends, from 2010 to 2018, there was the Provenzano DJ Show Deluxe, featuring guest mixes from visiting DJs. From 2015 to 2017 he also took a show of his own to Miami, the Happiness Radio Show, on Revolution 93.5 FM.

In 2017 came Folegandros, with Federico Scavo, one of the best-known tracks he has produced. It is one of his three releases on Spinnin' Records, one of the most important dance labels in the world: Folegandros on Cartel Music, Serifos (2017) on Doorn Records and Babele with The Cube Guys (2018) on SPRS.

From 2016 to 2018 he mixed the nine compilations of the m2o Xperience series, which together with the 40 m2o compilations and the 4 DualDiscs make 53 releases, more than half of the over 90 he has signed in his whole career. In total, his compilations have sold almost 3 million copies.

As a Roman and an AS Roma fan, in those years he made two dreams come true. On 28 June 2012 he played at the Stadio Olimpico, at the Soundrome Festival, launched a few weeks earlier in Via Condotti with him on the decks alongside Usain Bolt, and on 21 March 2018 he played football at the Olimpico, at the Love Cup, wearing the number 9 shirt. From 2015 to 2018 the Privilege in Ibiza, the largest club in the world, became a second home: more than 10 dates, first as resident guest for La Isla, then with Ibiza Paint Party and Rich Bitch. In 2017 and 2018 he played at Balaton Sound, in Hungary. From 2017 to 2019 he sat on the jury of the Tour Music Fest for the DJ category.

In March 2019, after seventeen years, his time at m2o came to an end.

After m2o, 2019 – today

After m2o, the radio work went on. Between 2019 and 2024 he was on air on Radio Wow in Veneto, Radio Super Sound in Sardinia and Stardust Radio, and since 2025 he has been on Radio RIN.

In those years Crossover was born, his new radio show: a weekly selection of new releases, chosen as always in his unmistakable style.

In 2024 it also became a social format, and today it comes out in three versions: the social version on Instagram every Friday, the radio version on Radio RIN and the mixed version on Mixcloud, plus a playlist on Spotify.

It is a series closely followed by fans and industry insiders alike, now past 330 episodes and more than 6,000 tracks selected.

With over 200 records in his discography, between his own productions and remixes, today as a producer he looks above all to the international market: La Trompeta (2022) with Paul Jockey, Barranquilla (2024) with Andrea Gulisano and Mathieu Ruz on Stealth Records, Super Paradise (2024) on Blanco y Negro, Tiki Taka (2025) with Andrea Gulisano on Revealed, La Flauta Magica (2026) with Gabry Sangineto, again on Stealth Records.

In 2026 he also released his own version of Anima Libera, which is a special case. He was the one who made the original a hit, with volume 6 of the m2o compilation in 2004, and ever since the public has thought of it as his track, even though it isn't. After many years a dream came true: making his own version. It is still the most requested track at his live shows across Italy.

Outside the DJ booth there is volumevisivo, his agency: visual content created with AI, for labels, artists, DJs and creators. It is the same dual nature, music and technology, of the boy with the VIC-20.

For many years he was captain of the Nazionale Italiana Deejay, the Italian DJs' football team, alongside its late president Guido Gheri.

He has never stopped playing live. From his early years at RDS, through the m2o years, up to today, he has played more than 1,000 events: in all 20 Italian regions and in 473 towns, plus 89 dates abroad in 15 countries, for more than a million kilometres, twenty-six times around the Earth.

Among his key clubs are Spazio 900 in Rome, Baia Imperiale in Gabicce Mare, Privilege in Ibiza, Samsara and Praja in Gallipoli, Aquafan in Riccione, Altromondo Studios in Rimini, Fabrique in Milan and Tito's in Palma de Mallorca. He keeps touring because, as he puts it, it is not just about technique but about the ability to communicate something to the people listening to you.

Since day one, mixa and selecta Provenzano Dj.